Abstract
The Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (BLAST) experiment was operated at the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center from 2003 until 2005. The experiment was designed to exploit the power of a polarized electron beam incident on polarized targets of hydrogen and deuterium to measure, in a systematic manner, the neutron, proton, and deuteron form factors as well as other aspects of the electromagnetic interaction on few-nucleon systems. We briefly describe the experiment, and present and discuss the numerous results obtained.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 409-433 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science |
Volume | 61 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- Deuteron form factor
- Few-body structure
- Neutron form factor
- Proton form factor
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics